Ideas were sourced from 64 participants at OGP workshops, 120 at other events, plus on-line contributions from the public.

The independent OGP Expert Advisory Panel (EAP) together with officials and representatives from each workshop, then distilled seven aspirational themes from these ideas. Five of these themes survived further scruitiny using the following foci:

participation in democracy,

collaboration to develop policy and services, and

transparency and accountability,

resulting in an initial package of potential Commitments.

We look forward to learning of further progress on the suite of individual Actions that will underlie each of these Commitments. The drafted NAP3 will then be submitted through the Cabinet process before its approval, international publication, and implementation.

Timeline for NAP3

April 2018; Invitations were extended to the public, NGOs and civil society, to partake in OGP development workshops in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch

May: Four workshops were completed, ideas recorded and workshops’ representatives elected to further participate in the plan development process

5 June: The OGP Expert Advisory Panel (EAP) and members of the OGP team (OGP officials and workshop representatives) met to group 449 ideas into themes and sub-themes

27 June: Seven themes were publicly announced together with access to all related papers

2 July: The EAP, OGP team and government agencies attended a Synthesis Workshop to review ideas, themes to draft the Commitments with which to structure the NAP3

11 July: The EAP and OGP team met to continue deliberations and agreed on three Focus areas for the NAP3

August – September: development of the Actions to underpin each Commitment, and finalisation of the plan for Cabinet approval and submission to OGP International (Washington).

Completion of second OGP National Action Plan (NAP2)

the Government’s Self-Assessment Report on what has been achieved from its two-year plan

the findings by the OGP Independent Reporter, Keitha Booth, on those achievements

the opportunity to provide public feedback on both of these two reports.

This process assists government and the public to understand what works best in developing more open governments.

New Zealand’s progress to date on NAP2

October 2016: Launch of the plan for implementation after Cabinet approval

August 2017 – June 2018: Government agencies’ quarterly progress reports on each plan Commitment

August 2017: public comment invited on the Government’s Mid Term Self-Assessment Report (on the plan drafting process and early deliverables)

October 2017: publication of this Mid Term Self-Assessment Report

December 2017-January 2018: public comments received on a draft Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) Report for Year-1 (mid-term) process and progress, and recommendations for the next plan (2018-2020)

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